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   by brodo 5y ago

   FAANG are de-facto monopolies and have created their own markets so market forces work on them only to a small extend.
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   by brodo 5y ago

   While I can understand the concerns about added complexity, he won‘t be able to keep this up forever. Browsers will deprecate plain HTTP sooner or later.
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   Tools and Craft Podcast: Alan Kay(youtube.com)

   3 points by brodo 5y ago|0 comments
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   by brodo 5y ago

   https://lobste.rs/
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   by brodo 5y ago

   It’s so sad that almost nobody knows or uses SPARQL…
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   by brodo 5y ago

   Here is a good German source: https://www2.ufg.uni-freiburg.de/d/publ/zimm1.html And here a different one in English: https://web.archive.org/web/20180401081044/http://mygeology
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   by brodo 5y ago

   The black plague started 1350. 1310 was the big famine. Late middle ages where no joke.
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   by brodo 5y ago

   Yes although there where also some free farmers. As I understand it, the serfs had more power in the high middle ages than before and after, because the lords also lacked the resources for strong police forces. There was not a lot of metal
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   by brodo 5y ago

   Good article. When it comes to living standards, it is worth mentioning that there was a more equal wealth distribution after the fall of Rome which made it impossible for medieval nobles to finance large armies. This meant that wars in med
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    by brodo 5y ago

    For a more interesting critique check out this podcast titled “Bitcoin is right-wing technology” https://overcast.fm/+ZpQA7ciS0
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    by brodo 5y ago

    I know a lot of people in XR and FF who are against crypto because of the environment.
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    by brodo 5y ago

    This website is unusable and randomly reloads every couple of seconds. (Firefox mobile) Reader mode does not work.
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    by brodo 5y ago

    I think the biggest problem is that people who had an ego death experience are trying to experience it again by dosing up when it is largely a set and setting issue. Firstly, you can't have a life-changing, ecstatic experience of being
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    by brodo 5y ago

    Teams also does not allow people to manually set their on/offline status which makes it unusable in some German companies because it can be used for surveillance.
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    by brodo 5y ago

    I have the same question when it comes to a modern version of the Mythical Man Month. I know some computer history, so I can understand most examples. But still it would be great to have a comparable modern book.
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    by brodo 5y ago

    Exactly. I'm currently reading The Mythical Man-Month. 90% of what the book discusses in term of programming work that actually has to be done is completely irrelevant today. Still the software industry is bigger then ever. In the book
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    by brodo 5y ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-whuXHSL1Pg
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    by brodo 5y ago

    The Buddists call it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatt%C4%81 Anattā. In psychonautics it’s called ego death. It can be frightening, but for me it is a hopeful, unifying and happy idea.
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    Lex Fridman Podcast – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano(youtube.com)

    2 points by brodo 5y ago|0 comments
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    by brodo 5y ago

    For me it’s different. It’s not a chair to relax in. It encourages good posture, but I would not call it comfortable. I still think it helped my back pain. It’s comfortable enough to sit on it during work days but I feel the need to stand u
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    by brodo 5y ago

    I did the same. I gave a rug pretty close to my desk and getting up and down carpers with the regular wheels was just imposdible.
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    by brodo 5y ago

    Yuval Harari makes a very similar argument in “Sapiens”. I really recommend reading it. It’s an eye opener.
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    by brodo 5y ago

    This is the “all lives matter” tactic applied to colonialism.
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    by brodo 5y ago

    Germany will provide around 1.1 billion EUR but they will do it by sponsoring social projects over the next 30 years.
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    by brodo 5y ago

    The US is the leading force in the war on drug users since the International Opium Convention in 1912. Others are complicit, but the US is the main force behind it. You mentioned that some countries legalized drugs and them rolled back. Can
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    by brodo 5y ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_co...
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    by brodo 5y ago

    I don‘t know much about OS development or C++ but I still watch his videos because of his thoughts on life as a software engineer.
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    by brodo 6y ago

    However evil Elon Musk may be, he is a high priest of the religion of progress. Many people (especially highly educated liberals) are not very religious. Scientific and technical progress is the thing they dedicate their lives to like a rel
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    by brodo 6y ago

    Effectively not anymore. Here is a very recent german article about it: https://www.golem.de/news/crypto-messenger-signal-server-nic... No updates in the repo for over a year and no answers from the team. The whole cry
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    by brodo 6y ago

    Marx is the most important critic of capitalism and dismissing his critique with “Stalin though” does not really address the point. Even if you think Marxism is totally bad in all it’s forms that does not mean that Marx’ critique of capital